Taylor Swift wins the album of the year in the return of the historic Grammys

It’s a love story between Taylor Swift and the Grammy again.

After the last two albums were largely overlooked by the premiere show, the Recording Academy made it clear that it has no bad blood with the singer-songwriter, anointing his surprise quarantine album “Folklore” as album of the year.

Nominated for six awards at the 63rd annual ceremony on Sunday night, including Song of the Year (“Cardigan”), Pop Solo Performance (“Cardigan”), Pop Duo / Group Performance (“Exile”), Pop Vocal Album ( “Folklore”) and Album of the Year (“Folklore”), Swift was ready to return to the show after a five-year absence from the Grammy stage.

Shaking off her past courage, as she usually does, Swift passed without trophies throughout the ceremony before winning the biggest prize of the night. She is now the only female artist to win the album three times a year, previously taking home trophies in the category for her 2008 album “Fearless” and “1989” in 2014, which established her as a bona fide pop star. .

Accepting the award on stage with co-writers Aaron Dessner of The National and Blankers frontman Jack Antonoff, who sang with Swift on stage earlier, Swift first thanked the collaborators before sweetly shouting at her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn.

“I want to thank … Joe, the first person to sing every song I write. I had the best time writing songs with you in quarantine, ”she said.

Swift then went on to specifically mention friends Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, referring to the couple’s three children, after which she named several characters from her album.

“I want to thank James, Inez and Betty, who are the second and third person I play on every new song I write,” Swift added before thanking his legion of fans.

“You have met us in this imaginary world we have created and we cannot tell you how honored we are forever by this,” she concluded.

Winning the Album of the Year puts Swift in the well-decorated company of Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon, who also won the award three times. Meanwhile, Adele is the only female performer to approach Swift, tying her previous record with victories for her albums “21” and “25.”

Swift could not have asked for a better re-entry into the good graces of the Grammy than with the eighth studio album, “Folkore”, universally acclaimed. The record, which detached the singer’s optimistic sensibilities to reveal her most adult and emotional lyricism so far, was made almost entirely in isolation during the COVID-19 blockade.

“Folklore” became the biggest and best-selling album of the year and Swift’s seventh consecutive album to reach number one on the Billboard charts, where it remained for eight weeks.

And if you’re wondering: no, Swift’s follow-up album “Evermore,” which she released less than five months after “Folkore,” isn’t eligible for this year’s ceremony, so wait a minute see you pick up a few more trophies next year.)

In addition to his “Folklore” signs, Swift also received a nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media for his collaboration with “Cats” with Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Beautiful Ghosts,” but lost the Bond Bond Award. of Billie Eilish “No Time to Die.”

Throughout her career, the singer has won a total of 41 Grammy nominations and 11 victories and clearly has no intention of slowing down soon.

Swift is now in the process of re-recording the first six albums amid his ongoing struggle to control his musical heritage and claim ownership. An extended version of her first album no. 1, “Fearless”, will be released in April and will include six songs that have not been released before.